Does the Forum Change the Attitude of Users?

[pefu19]

i was pefu now im kxait
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[Abstath]

Funnily enough, I've felt a motivation boost in some things after a while of hanging around here. Mostly projects related to Blockland, but still.

[Doorman]

I feel like this forum has changed me from being optimistic to cynical. I realized that a while back and have been trying to change it, but that is a slippery slope and most people don't give me the reason I need to hope for the better. I call myself a realist, but I'm just a cynic that is good at making educated guesses.

On a more positive note, this forum helped me develop a mature love for intelligent arguments. Unfortunately, those are more few and far between than the people that show their genuine selves.

[HellHound]

If you weren't already an starfish when you entered the forums, it'll whittle you down to one none the less.

[Clone v.117]

Only if you let it, I suppose. Though that is usually the case.
I don't really remember what I was like when I was new here, apart from a dumbass. Pretty sure I was more aggressive and assholish than I am now but I think that has more to do with aging and maturing outside the forums.
I think the forums probably did make me more hostile for a time, though the only concrete change I can assure happened was that feeling when someone shows you something you saw like a month ago. But even that is more internet exposure than forum exposure.
In short yeah I think it does change people, as is evident in some users more than others, but it's hard to be sure as the changes take place over a long period of time and without the knowledge of what else is happening in the forumers lives. Not to mention most of the people here have been going through puberty during their time here, so changes are to be expected.

[Space1255]

im still an idiot but a bit less of one

[sir dooble]

For myself I'm not sure in what ways I've really changed.
I still make terrible jokes, I can still get into arguments, I still write large posts and for the most part I still don't get involved with other users outside of the forums.

I think perhaps I'm a little bit more likely to speak up against people now. But that's probably related to me having been here so long I feel confident enough that I won't be entirely brushed off or ridiculed as a new idiot on the forums. (anonymity helps, but I am a member of a community with a name. If I forget up then no one who knows me in person will know I did, but this community will still know that sir dooble forgeted up. And I do care for that, perhaps not quite as much, like I care how my friends and family think of me. sir dooble is one of my names and it is part of who I am).

I have definitely learnt a lot of things being here, and I am honestly grateful for that. Whether I've picked up bits of science from other members, or experienced alternate viewpoints on politics, religion, loveuality or anything else. Just having second hand accounts of life around the globe has been educational and inspiring. I would never have made friends or communicated with Irishmen, Swedes, Frenchmen, Australians, Argentinians, Canadians or Americans if I wasn't involved in this community (This is the only online community I take a decent part in).
It's nice to be educated about those different cultures.


I suppose I can say I have changed on the forums as a result of the forums, but I don't believe that has changed me as a person outside of them, bar educating me.
It's hard to say if the forums are personally responsible for my maturing or personality. I have been on here for 5 years and 11 months.
I was 13 when I joined and now I'm 19, a legal adult. It would be naive to say that growing up and going through puberty, as well as my friends, family and school life haven't been the driving force behind how I've grown and changed as a person.

[Flatflyer]

if anything, this forum has given me a group of people who I can actually relate to fairly well.

Literally everywhere else theres no one else interested in the stuff im into

but this place we all do have one interest in common and thats gaming.
I can become friends with you guys a lot better than people at school or anything because we all have a common interest,

and when I do find and talk to those kinds of people who do share interests with me, I'm a lot more confident when talking to them thanks to this place and the people I've met and made friends with on here.

[SgtDaemon]

if anything, this forum has given me a group of people who I can actually relate to fairly well.
Literally everywhere else theres no one else interested in the stuff im into
but this place we all do have one interest in common and thats gaming.
I can become friends with you guys a lot better than people at school or anything because we all have a common interest,
and when I do find and talk to those kinds of people who do share interests with me, I'm a lot more confident when talking to them thanks to this place and the people I've met and made friends with on here.

but ur not me frind :(((((
For me, I grew up with this forum, and it helped me mature and to stop feigning ignorance towards responsibility, hiding behind 'but im just a litl kid :((((((('. It also helped me realize that most people are cunts and you need to know how to deal with them.

So overall, i'd say it was a pretty positive impact on me. Thankfully, when in my first posts I was being an incredible idiot, everyone forgave me so I didn't melt down.

It also changed my personality a lot. For once, i learned to appreciate being young while I can.

[Sideswipe]

i can't tell if I changed at all

[XR-7]

I think so but not in the way you're saying exactly
like the forum has made me hostile
but only when I'm using the forum
so idk

Same type of thing for me.

I always have to ram my way into conversation which I didn't used to, but in real life I'd just listen in and notsay anything just like iI always have.

[Doughboy]

i was the best before the forums and still the best now

[SailorMan]

I used to have a law with myself not to curse... and I was always afraid to say anything negative for fear of getting banned... but this was when I was like 13 ;-;

[Refticus]

bran demege

[Caribou]

It hasn't changed my attitude.